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much. precipitation, that their fire was not very de. etructive. I am, Bic. (Signed) SUCIfET. IVITNTTRY OF THE MARINE. 111 7 .1'011T OF CA2TAIN POTET TO THE 51INIe;TER Or MARINE. STR,—On the sth of April, at half-past eleven in the morning, weather thick, and a fresh breeze trom W. N. W. his Majesty's frigate Aienzen, un der, my command, I discovered an enemy's frigate, about two leagues and a half to leeward. I imme diately tacked to starboard ; but I had scarcely made sail, when I perceived another frigate to leeward of the former, which obliged me to change my course, and stand off with all the sail I could carry. _ " At live in the evening the wind changed to N. E; with squalls; at which time the frigate in my wake appeared to have somewhat the advantage of sailing. At half-past seven, I lost sight of the fri gate to leeward, and the other was distant about wO leagnes N. W. quarter N. At eight o'clock she was no longer in sight ; and I immediately changed my course, still carrying a' press of sail. " At three-quarters past nine, a frigate appeared to the windward, and soon approached within half cannon shot. She made some signals, which were answered by the vessel to leeward, and which I sup posel.l to be one of those that chased me in the course (4 . the day. The tire instantly commenced with the bow and stern chasers of both ships. At hall past eleven, my rigging was much cut ; and not wishing to expose myself to further damage, I de co.led on engaging. A quarter of an hour afterwards, the anion be gan at pistol-shot, under easy sail. Both ships made use of various manoeuvres until two o'clock, when I discovered that the enemy was endeavouring to lay me athwart hawse, by bearing down upon me.—l adopted the same manoeuvre, and then tacking to windward, I passed under his stern, in which situ ation I gave him a broadside. My intention was to board; but the enemy avoided it by dropping to lee ward, which gave me the advantage of the wind.— At half past two, I lost my mizen-mast ; the lar board netting caught fire. The enemy, who was much crippled, availed himself of this accident, and dropping astern, attacked me on the quarter. Ten ruinutes after, the wreck of the mast was cleared, the fire minguished, and I brought my broadside to bear. Within a quarter of three, I had the satisfac tion to see the enemy lose his main and mizen masts, and immediately mike sail before the wind, drawing _along the two masts, which retarded his sailing. He could only carry sail on his foremast, which was shattered with grape. f 4 Irt oout,fifteen minutes my First Lieutenant, informed me that the Enemy had struck, and that they hailed us to stop firing. I ordered M. Kerangoue to take possession of her, but we soon' saw another frigate bear down to her assistance. She made signals to her, and fired some musket shot at me. I then renewed the aEtion with four guns only, my crew being employed in repairing damages, with the intention of lighting the fresh frigate, which was only a short distance from us. " The a6tion soon began with her, with repeat el cries of Long live the Emperor She lay along side me only a short time. My rigging was in too bad a state to enable me to prevent her from rang ing on my starboard quarter, from which I could not bring my guns to bear on her. At half past four my maintop caught fire so violently, that it was impossible to extinguish it, particularly as the fire - englne had been rendered unserviceable by a shot. Shortly after, the mainmast fell by the board, and encumbered the guns, which could not be brought to bear on the first frigate. This vessel took part in the alion by firing into-my bows, and this was my position when, at three quarters past four, I struck to the Arethusa, of 48 guns 26 eighteens, 2 nines, and 18 thirty-two pound car ronades. " The Amethyst, which I engaged for six hours and a half, was of the same force. Your Excellency will be pleased to take notice, that before the Arethusa came up, Which had been cruising on the coast of Spain (for it was not this 1r gate that chased me in the day time), the Ame thyst had only her foremast remaining. " The Niemen b4d then all her masts (except her foremast) and sails a good deal shattered indeed, but capable of being soon repaired. I had then only 50 men killed and wounded. " I learned from some French prisoners who were on board the Amethyst, that when she ceased her fire, near four o'clock, they v;.ere obliged to leave the hold, on account of the great quantity of wafer she made. • The bravery displayed on this occasion by the Officers and crew of the iViemen, is above my praise ; and I request that your Excellency will pro cure them that reward of which they are most am bitiou,, namely, to submit their condud to his Ma jesty's attention. " De POTET." Nun r, tt RG, JULY s.—We learn from the Prague c)fricial Gazette, that the French, who are besieging Presbuigh, have destroyed the bridges on the river, in order to deprive the great Austrian army of that passage, in case they should stand in need of it, in order to pass into Hungary. An Order of the Du,issued by the Archduke Charles on the 23d of June, expresses the great di,satisfaaion of the Archduke at the condittt of the Hungarian insurreilion at the battle of It i al L Th e wi :o leght wing, composed of that Militia, tied in so st uge a manner, that it should seem its i'adeis are little sensible of the importance of the which the Austrian Monarchy 'is at this General Chasteller, says a Bulletin of the 18th of Juno, unable to re-enter the Tyrol, with great difficulty has reached Hurgary, having crossed the Danube, near Buda. He hopes, by a great circuit, o join the Archduke John. The Archduke Ferdinand has ordered rations to IDe provided for him at Teschen. He is bearing to wards Moravia, feating to be turned by the Poles and Russian 3. An Order of the Day of the Igth -ult. announced to the Archduke. Charles's army, that Austria has .41b;es on the Continent, besides .Vingland. The of- Gazette now declares; that these Allies are qle Turks ; but every one knows, that the Turks, anable to assist the Austrians, cannot defend them t'Ltt.nsf....lve:i from the RuisianfL PARIS, JULY Majesty hag raised General Niaccionald to the dignity of Marshal of the Empire, in reward for his valiant conduct. ZARA, JUNE ha:•e received official in telligence, that the Servians, on the Ist and 2d inst. 'totally defeated a Turkish division under the Corn• mand of the Pacha Colaso, which had crossed the Drina in order to relieve the fortress Sucal. The Servians have taken possession of Jemska and the roads to Constantinople, so that all comma. nication is cut otT. Soliman Pacha has not ventured to attack them, though at the head of a large army. Since two months, only three Couriers have arrived from Constantinople, by way of Albania; From Romelia we learn that the Russians !lave possessed themselves of Seteslant and Adacalesia, two fortresses on the Danube. The Servians remain in the same positions. The Turks have attacked with great valour at Jeneska and Jeneravas, but without erfeet. LINTZ, JULY 14.—We learn from Vienna, that in the course of the last eight days; the preparations for passing the Danube have been considerably for warded. Immense magazines of provisions have been carried to Lobau ; also a great deal of wine, supplied by the convents. Four hundred lamps have been demanded to light the Island and the badges. More than .50,000 French have already passed the Danube. The Austrians have not hitherto endeavoured to obstruEt their operations. PARIS, JULY 4.—M. de la Riboissiere, one of the Emperor's pages, arrived at eleven o'clock last night at the Palace of the Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire. He was dispatched on the 7th July, by order of the Emperor, with intelligence to his Serene Highness, of the victory obtained at Deutch Wagram, by the army under his Majesty's orders. This morning, at half past seven, this vi6tory was announced by trequent discharges of artillery. This evening, the Bulletin, containing the parti culars of the memorable and decisive battle of Deutch Wagram, was read in the principal theatres, and accompanied by tumultuous . acclamations. Letters from Genoa and Marseilles mention, that the Regency of Algiers, at the instigation of the English, demanded of M. Dubois Tainville, Consul General of France, payment of an annual tribute, and upon his refusal ordered him to be arrested.— A provisional embargo has been in consequence laid on all the Algerine ships and property in the ports of France. MAILS. • AititlVlD.-1 Heligoland. Dup.-3 Cottenburgh, t Lisbon, 2 Waterford. THE SUN. SOLCM QUIT LICILAZ 'ALBUM AUDZAT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1809. THE Lord Nelson Packet arrived yesterday at Harwich from Heligoland, which place it left on Saturday last. The Fr:tich Bulletins had reached that island. The private letters brought by the Lord Nelson contain noilling important., The following account is given in a Letter recent. ly received from Spain, of the state of. the Spanish Armies : The total of the force under the command of CUESTA, including garrisons, amounts to 66,000 men, of which near 10,000 are cavalry. Under BLAKE, 44,700, of which 4,7'00 are cavalry. Under the Duke DE PARQUE, 6,500, of which 1,500 are cavalry. Under the Marquis DE Roan ANA, 20,000 men ; the proportion of cavalry in his army, and in that of General BiLLAsmitos, which consists of 10,000 men, has not been ascertained. The whole regular force of Spain, therefore, according to this estimate, amounts to 137,200 men. The following is an estimate of the irregular force: —ln Estremadura, 9000 ; in Gallicia, 20,000 ; in Catalonia, 10,000 ; and in La Mancha, 5000 ; mak ing together 44,000 men. The Commission of Five, it is added, are making the greatest exertions for assembling the Cortes. We have this day continued our Extraas from the French and Dutch Papers which arrived yesterday. Our Readers will be amused by the account given by Capt. POTET CO the French:Minister of Marine, of the aaion between the Amethyst and the Niemen frigates,. in which the latter was captured. Captain POTET defended his ship like a brave man ; we are sorry he has disgraced his charaaer by giving so ridiculously false an account of an anion which really did him credit. These Papers contain General SUCHET'S Letter, giving an account of the vidory which he obtained over General BLAKE on the" i sth ult. and some other details from Spain, which are not of a very interesting nature. It was this morning reported, but we have not, been able to ascertain upon what authority, that the Danes bad taken possession of Hamburgh. Private letters from the Continent state, that some disturbances had taken place at Ludwickberg, a coun try residence of the King of Wirteutherg.. The Gentleman whose arrival at Harwich from Rotterdam we mentioned yesterday states, that several Letters had been received there, which mention, that all the French Generals conceived the passage of the Danube to be a desperate and mad at : tempt, and that 4UONAPARTE would not have un dertaken it if he had not been compelled by necessi ty, from want of provisions,—that the French suf fered so severely in the battles which took place, that they bad not _been able to advance their bead. quarters beyond Walchersdorf; and that the Aus trians retreated in perfea order, to a much stronger line of entrenchments which they had for some time been fortifying, and that the retreat of the Archduke was a feint to draw BUONAPARTE from the Danube. He further states, that the whole of the French, force in the Austrian territories does not exceed 120,000 men, and that, notwithstanding the boast ing of the French Bulletins, the general opinion was, that the last Battles had been in their results so dis astrous to the French, that BUONAPARTE would not venture to advance, as, in case of any reverse, his re treat would become impraaicable. Such is the, substance of the details brought by this Gentleman ; but as • they are entirely founded upon private accounts received in Rotterdam, we, of course, cannot vouch for their correctness. We think, however, that from an attentive perusal of the Bulletins, there is strong reason to believe that they are, in general, well founded. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses SO PHIA and AUGUSTA, accompanied by Lords WAL SINGHAM and RIVERS, 'Lady J. THYNNE, Generals CARTWRIGHT and FITZROY, Mr. D,RAN. GROSVE NOR, and Colonel TAYLor. rode in Windsor Park, and returned to the Palace at noon ; alter which Mr. Ditn.x GRosvEtioß and daughter lett Windsor for London. The fleet conveying the Expedition has been vic tualled for four months. His MAJESTY will, we understand, inspe& the Volunteer Infantry, immediately after the corn har vest. An anonymous letter has been circulated through out the kingdom, proposing to celebrate the 2,5 th of OEtober next by a national jubilee, as his MA JESTY 'Will on . that day enter the fiftieth year of his reign, an epoch which has not occurred since the reign of EDWARD the Third, and only twice within a space of twelve hundred years. New York Papers to the 14th ult. have been brought by the Collingwood, GmclsisT, arrived in the Clyde. The following article is from the lliew York Gazette of that date : - " Letters from Members of Congress mention, that the Embargo Law, with all its supplements, and the Non-intercourse Law, would be repealed; and that a bill would be brought in, interdi&ing com merce with France; leaving a discretionary power with the President to open the intercourse with that Power, whenever an arrangement should be made." Yesterday the Mary-le-bone Volunteers marched to 'Wormwood Scrubs, to engage in a sham encoun ter with the St. James's Corps, commanded by Ma jor Downs. The latter regiment went to Hammer smith on Friday last, on permanent duty. Sunday they mustered on Brook Green, and their Chaplain preached a Sermon on the drum-head. About eleven o'clock yesterday morning they advanced by the East Aaon road to Old Oak-lane, near Old Oak Common, adjoining to Wormwood Scrubs. Hay ing taken a position, they waited the attack of the Mary-le-bone regiment, which marched from town by the Tyburn Turnpike, and moved forward across the 'Scrubs to the post of their supposed enemy.— Lord Duncannon °led the attack with great ability, and the St. James's were compelled to retreat by the well-direeted fire of two field pieces, which must have made great havoc among the enemy in the narrow lane, if the contest had been real. The fire was returned by two pieces attached-to the St. James's; but the latter appeared in great confusion. A body of the retreating party being cut off, took possession of an old barn, and intreuched themselves by throwing two waggons across a pass which led to their breast-work. Here they were sur rounded and summoned to surrender at discre tion. A flag of truce was then sent to toe ber siegers, and they refused all capitulation, unless they were suffered to join their regiment with arms, &c. Their terms were of course acceded to, and they acknowledged that they had been in the power of the advancing party. The Mary-le-hone were after wards obliged to retreat i❑ their turn to Old Oak Common, but they soon formed in excellent order, and after some smart firing, the St. James's retreated on the road by which they advanced to Hammer smith, and from thence they returned to town.— This little effort in imitation of regular duty, refleas much credit on the Officers and men of both re giments, who conducted themselves in a syle which proved that they would afford essential service, if opposed to the foe. We are sorry to say, that an Officer, who acted as Aide-de Camp to Lord Dun cannon, was thrown from his horse and much hurt; he was left at a house near the Common. The speaators Were numerous, and the scene was highly pleasing to the admirers of military tactics. BREAD.—To-day there was no Court of Alder men held; the LORD MAYOR, after inspecting the 'Returns of the Bakers' Company and Meek eighers, ordered it to fall id. per Peck. The skeleton of a mammoth in high preservation (being the second) was lately found on the coast o the White Sea, et the mouth of the river Tana. ELOPEMENT.—The wife of a Spanish Gentleman, resident in this country, has recently eloped with a young Hibernian, not yet 19, who had been a fre quent guest at • the husband's table. They were traced to some considerable distance ; but from the circumstance of their taking bye-roads, and walking occasionally across fields, all traces of them has been lost. The Lady is not quite twice the age of her enamorata. The inhabitants of Duke's Place were some even ings since much alarmed by a loud crash, which was distinctly heard in the Synagogue. On examination, it was found that the large .chandelier had fallen from the cieling, and done considerable damage to the benches, &c. beneath it. Had this accident oc-' curred during the time of worship, the consequences must have been fatal, as the chandelier was . one of considerable weight, having 400 burners,. Mr. Howe who jas been attempting to do the Barclay match in Somersetshire, resigned the task on Saturday, the 15th day's performanCe only having been completed. He has thus lost a stake of W..)9 guineas, and his health is much injured. EXPEDIrroy. DIRECTIONS FOR DISLMBARKING TROOPS, - is to superintend the disembarkation of the army; - are to be attached. to hirn for this service; and they are to take to their assistance such Officers of the ships which they respeCtively com mand, as may be necessary to execute the object, and to preserve order and regularity among the wes, and the boats of their several divisions. The boats of the men of war and transports are to be classed in divisions and sub-divisions, each di vision to be commanded by one of the Captains, and each sub-divisors, which is not to consist of more than six boats, to be . commanded by a Lieutenant. There is to be in each of Elie boats a careful petty of ficer, and in each of the, transports' boats a careful Mate. The Agents of the transports are to furnish a list of an the boats on board the different ships under their charge, specifying particularly the description of boats, and the number of troops they are capable of carrying with perfed convenience. A list also of the boats that are unfit to tow, or to what other general use they may be applicable.--. The Agents are to put their boats in divisions and sub-diviSions, with a proportion of Masters, and a Mate in every boat, stibmitting their general disposition to the senior Officer of his Majesty's ships attached to that dtvi. sips for his approbation, The boats of the men of war -.ltich are to corn. pose the divisions are to be arranged according to the following order, viz. first Division. I Second Div, I Third Div. I Fourth Div, The launches of the men of war which have to disembark the field-pieces of the Brigade,' are to be fitted with skeeds for that purpose, in order that each gun may be landed at the moment the boat touches the beach. If hories are embarked, it is recommended that they are not landed in the first instance, but that a strong company of seamen, with their harness to each gun, shall be employed for that purpose, as they can move much quicker than horses for a short distance. The men Of wars' boats of divisions to be distin guished by a small divisional pendant ; and if the - transports can furnish their boats with a small pea- ' dant of the same culqur, it will IN a great conve nience. When the signal is made for the boats to assemble for receiving troops, each division is to collect along, side of the ship which is pointed out by signal, and she is immediately to hoist the divisional gag 4t the point of rendezvous. will give the necessary direelions fOr the boats to repair in divisions and sub-divisions to the ships of war and transports, when they are t 0 receive the troops in regular order, according tin, regiments that are to be landed and when the signal is made to put off, the several boats containing. each regiment respectively are carefully to keep together is a line, and not to mix with those carrying otheriv giments in their way to the landing, The more ef feaually to ensure this desirable end, one Lieu tenant is to lead the boats of each regiment, and one to keep in the rear when they are pulling in a line a-head ; but if in a line a-breast, to be on each b:2ain. If it is expedient for the. Regiments to land so that they may be immediately formed, the Com manding Officers will point out the central com panies and the relative position of the other com panies, In order that the boats to receive them may be arranged accoidingly. The boats carrying the cemra, companies are to be distinguished by a —,- colour of the regiment, as a mark for the boats of that regiment to form on each side of them ; and the boati carrying the flank companies to be dis tinguished, the grenadiers or right, by a pen dant, light infantry or lef— t a pendant.; The long-boats and launches are to be attended by such boats of their respeCtive ships as the . Cap- - a ins may think necessary to tow them; and the , boats not employed in this service are to assist in' towing such transports' boats as may be - direded by the Captains of the divisions. Particular caution must be taken not to crowd the boats, especially if any opposition is expeOed. The mode of disembarking the troops must be de cided by circumstances,. and the number of b.iats be longing to the Expedition; the rendezvous will be signified by,signal—right, left. -In forming the order of landing, whether in bri gades or divisions, attention must be paid to ,keep .the boats, in which the brigades are embarked, in the order of landing, that there may not be any confu sion on the beach. The divisions may be made out in starboard, la:.* board, and centre ; or first, second, third, fourth, &c. &v.; all to be distinguished b) pendants,'and the Officer who commands the division is to carry in his b,,at a small flag, of the colour of the .distin guishing flag of his division; and to have two Offi cers to attend him in bo .ts without troops, fur the purpose of carrying messpg-s across the line. 'Offi cers to be provided with speakimg trumpets in the boats, and messages to be tepeated. A proportion of spare boats to be in the rear or the lines, as a rescrye for any assistance which may be zectui:ect,